That poor x220 deserves a coreboot and a good OS

Huh? That guy is cool because of his lore and his attitude. We don’t care if he is male, female an alien or whatever. We don’t care if he won a medal, a diploma or a 5$ discount on a supermarket.

He is relevant because this guy went shooting into an olimpic event with a normal guy vibe wearing his prescription glasses and one hand in the pocket, while other olimpic teams wear all kind of complex sighting aparatus for this events. Plus his story lore of how he became olimpic shooter is hilarious.

His teamate could be Erdogan, Beyonce, Taylor Swift. NOT RELEVANT.

So what? He has a female in his team? Okay.

He is making the job worse for his team not his corporation. That’s not the way to deal with that.

I hate this kind of practice. It shows no empathy for the guy that will have to fix it.

Yeah, games are the only thing that it’s keeping me outside fully FOSS. It’s getting better though.

So they were developing the game by sharing zips of their versions? OMG. There should be a tutorial of minimum Dev knowledge for wanna be new developers. They have very cool ideas, but the way they program…

For example Shadows of Doubt. Was running super bad last time I checked out. I think that too much accessibility to game Dev tools is lowering the quality of a lot of games (in resource hungry sense).

Probably on Nintendo switch because of the hardware they use. But no idea at all. It was just an example.

Companies want to enforce their licences strictly but when free software community asks them they are like: “ups mistake, sorry, forgive us”.

Free software licences should be respected with the same degree as they so with privative ones.

I love one of the clauses of gplv3 where if a user does not follow the gpl you may deny them their ability to use it forever.

Would be funny to strike Nintendo with that. Or any other company that likes suing people work.

The closest thing I know as a kind of FOSS project (totally not FOSS) is Road to Vostok. It’s still in development, programmed in Godot.

Oh wait!! You may like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. GAMMA. I think all the source code has FOSS kind of licences. The game is free as in beer too. Prettt good actually. Single player inmersive tactical postapocaliptic shooter. With good grahpics too.

Non FOSS tactical games that you may like:

• Swat 4, if you mod it with SEF and use voice commands it gets pretty good.

• Arma 3. You have plenty of mods to make it as realistic as you want. Ace, etc.

• Arma Reforger.

• Ready or Not. Combined with voice attack it’s amazing.

For multiplayer games that aren’t that tactical but still more tactical than FPS games. But that are super fun:

• Rising Storm Vietnam. SUPER SUPER FUN GAME. Coordinated team play is not that important.

• Squad: SUPER SUPER FUN. More realistic than RSV. It has vehicles. Very important to have a good coordinated gameplay in order to be enjoyable.

• Insurgency (Saga): Kind of tactical CSGO (simplified explanation). Cool concept cool gameplay. But the comunity has shifted (in the Insurgency Sandstorm) from tactical gameplay to fps/cod/csgo like. Full rushing and stuff. Skins and that kind of stuff that kills a game. I don’t play it anymore.

Upcoming tactical shooters:

• Stalker 2.
• 83’.
• Arma 4.

Others i haven’t played:

DayZ.

Games that are good but that i don’t recommend at all because of its devs:

Escape From Tarkov.

Well for libreboot i had to program the bios eprom (SOIC-8 SPI programable). For that i used a chinese CH341a programmer which didn’t work (IMPORTANT: first i had to fix the chinese design hardware problem that the ch341a has were it uses 3.3v as vdd but 5v as high level for digital spi signals) because of the shitty cables of the kit. I tried with a rpi pico with the same cables and also didn’t work. Then i literally knitted cables one by one in each of the eprom pins in order to program it and it worked. My advice: don’t use cheap chinese SOIC clips/cables. The CH341a can be fixed but if you can, also don’t use it. They have a bug in their hardware design and they don’t fix it.

After that i just installed Guix system iso in a pen and proceeded with the installation. I did a full encryption install (FULL all /boot included) because with libreboot you can have grub in your eeprom which is awesome. So basically i have a permanent bootloader that launches at start (besides all the other stuff libreboot does about neutering intel management engine, etc)

Then i followed more or less this in order to create the config file of the system. Once the config file is created you gust run guix and it does everything: configuration, compiling software if needed, etc.

And basically that’s it. Well i also searched for a pci wifi card that had free software drivers in h-node.

Libreboot is very cool. You can change bios “variables”, like for example modifiying your laptop hardcoded company MAC address for a random one (which I did). You have to do that when you are compiling the image that you will write into the eeprom.

Ah and btw Linux-Libre is just the default kernel for guix system. Basically 0 bloat. There are people channels that have guix system with bloat, but Guix by default is bloat free (well in reality only if you install libreboot too like i did :) ). That’s why i bought a libre software compatible wifi card.

But Guix system can also be build with Linux, systemd ( the initd is shepherd) and other stuff if you configure it like so. But in order to do that you will have to read the Guix manual probably.

Basically a hobby project. I wanted to have a fully free computer. So i bought a x220 on ebay and did all that to have the fully free laptop.

Guix can be used as a kind of package manager in any other distro. And it has super cool features. It’s worth checking out just for that. It follows the classical GNU filosofy of “hack with your computer as much and deeper as you want”.

Guix system is perfect if you want to mess around, because you can just revert back in time your whole system.

Irony? Hahah

Libreboot + GNU/Linux-Libre Guix System

The guix manual is pretty well explained. Now i’m learning Guile (Scheme’s dialog) and learning to configure both guix and guix system.

The fact of being able to revert system and home environment software installation and configuration without breaking anything, is too good to be true.

It’s also very cool to define packages either as compiled software or source packages to compile.

FP4 with CalyxOS works perfectly.

I’m European, but I don’t get your excitement. Everybody has summer vacations, no? Not just Europeans. So what’s the deal?

Windows kernel is a much modern design. An hybrid kernel. Linux is stuck in a monolithic design, and tries to be kind of hybrid, but the design is still monolithic.

I don’t know how well this kernel could fit as the global defacto kernel for all computers.

IMHO I think the future in order to take lead beyond Apple and Microsoft kernels is to take the microkernel path. That’s either helping with the GNU Hurd or starting a new project.

A competent modern Kernel would be a serious blow to the modern privative Oses. We are in a good position to strike. Windows and MacOs getting shittier and shittier.

Security shouldn’t be based on ofuscation but on a good cryptographic algorithm concept.

What about Shepherd

Yeah I’ve seen it on twitch. We are joeover.

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